MindMeld (formerly ExpectLabs) introduces a new platform to “achieve scale” as growth in voice and natural language search and device control accelerates in the coming years.
Speech recognition
Amazon Makes Intelligent Assistance Easier With Alexa Voice Services and a Free SDK
Amazon created simple tools and APIs for app developers to use to add a human-like spoken interface to mobile, consumer electronic devices.
Unleash the Hound! SoundHound to Houndify Intelligent Assistance
Hound raises the bar for rapid, responsive, multi-topic, natural language, spoken input to mobile devices for search, communications digital commerce and Q&A.
Intelligent, Speech-Enabled Tech Gifts for Your Holiday Shopping List
Amy Stapleton offers a few gift ideas for technology enthusiasts, both young and old, ranging from a speech-enabled smart home device to the latest in intelligent assistants.
Reflections on SpeechTek: Natural User Interfaces Go Far Beyond Speech Processing
To kick off SpeechTek 2014 Conference, I participated in an exceptionally interesting panel organized by Jibo’s Roberto Pieraccini to discuss “New Technologies Coming Soon.” In retrospect, term “coming soon” was a misnomer. Two of the panelists – Bernard Brafman of… Read More ›
Who Needs the Talking Refrigerator When You Have Amazon Dash?
Amazon Dash is best thought of as a part of a generation of Intelligent Assistants that we, members of humankind, should start getting ready to master.
3iLogic-Designs’ SimSim Brings a Voice Interface to the Internet of Things
Those of us who have been following development of a Conversational Interface for the Internet of Things (IoT) are very familiar with the myriad of challenges confronting product or service developers. We all start with a vision, rooted in the… Read More ›
IBM’s New Watson Group to be a $2 Billion Dollar Boon to Conversational Commerce
IBM is taking dramatic steps to insure that Watson, its cloud-based set of computing, communications and analytic resources, will be broadly ingrained into the conversational interface between companies and their customers, employees or other stakeholders.
Subtracting Siri Would Be a Mistake
Piper Jaffray’s Analyst Gene Munster reportedly issued a research note to clients speculating that Apple will exclude Siri from a forthcoming, low-cost version of the iPhone 5. Upon reflection it is my belief that such a tactic would be a big mistake.
OK Google… Now We’re Talking!
Google’s new phone, the Moto X, enables its owners to take command of their digitized world without pressing a button, making a gesture or touching a screen.